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The architect of New York's Brooklyn Bridge, Johann August Roebling, was born in Muehlhausen. He studied mathematics in Erfurt and engineering at the King's Polytechnical Institute in Berlin. He finished his studies with a thesis on the construction of hanging bridges. In 1826-27 he visited the lectures held by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel at Berlin University. In 1831 - at the age of 25 - Johann August Roebling decided to emigrate to the USA with his brothers and friends, attracted by unlimited possibilities, driven by professional and political constraints in Germany, and by his ambition. He took Hegel's 'Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences' with him.
In the United States the immigrants bought land and started to work as farmers: Today's Saxonburg in Pennsylvania was founded by Roebling and his Muehlhausen friends. John August Roebling married and found employment as an engineer. From 1841 onwards he manufactured a steel wire rope he had designed: His invention made him wealthy, his children and grandchildren were to become millionaires. At the same time John August Roebling constructed several hanging bridges, for example the Cincinnati Bridge crossing the Ohio River. John August Roebling died from tetanus whilst New York's Brooklyn Bridge was build. His son took over and finally, when he fell ill, his wife Emily continued the work.
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